New Organic Landscape Guide Helps Professionals Protect the Environment

The manual provides recommendations to landscape contractors on how to effectively conduct organic land care.

Cape May County Herald
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Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) has always promoted and researched environmentally friendly horticultural practices, but now a new publication is available to help landscapers go organic.

The Rutgers Organic Land Care Best Practices Manual provides recommendations to land managers and landscape contractors on how to effectively conduct organic land care in New Jersey. Many landscapers in New Jersey have incorporated organic services into their businesses, but often there is confusion in the industry and among clients about what going organic actually means. This guide provides clarification, and will assist industry professionals in determining what is and what is not considered organic landscaping.

Organic land care is not simply about substituting organic-approved products for synthetic materials. In other words, just because you are using an organic pesticide on a lawn does not mean the lawn is organic. Organic land care involves treating a landscape as a whole living system where the soil, plants and animals within that system are interdependent and should sustain each other. This type of thinking is based in ecology, which is the study of the relationships that living organisms have with each other and the nonliving environment.

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